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Juno Alvarez, Yaiza de Lamo, Mar Nantas – La revolución de las musas AKA The...
“Blurring the lines between fiction and documentary, La revolución de las musas gives a voice to the sex workers erased from art history…” La.revolucion.de.las.musas.2024.1080p.mkvGeneralContainer:...
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Marjan Khosravi – Requiem for a Tribe (2024)
Hajar is betrayed by her family and forced to abandon her nomadic lifestyle. Climate change, personal and political issues have drastically diminished the traditional migratory activities of the...
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Greta Schiller & Robert Rosenberg – Before Stonewall (1984)
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community is a 1984 American documentary film about the LGBT community prior to the 1969 Stonewall riots. It was narrated by author Rita Mae Brown,...
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Péter Forgács – El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War (2005)
Quote: El perro negro takes a clichés braking view of the Spanish Civil War trough a mesmerizing found footage collage. The saga begins in 1929 with the talented amateur filmmaker, Joan Salvans, son...
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David Morris & Jacqui Morris – McCullin (2012)
Quote: Don McCullin is known the world over for his incredible work as a photojournalist. His powerful and moving photography of devastation and suffering in Cyprus, The Congo, Vietnam and many others...
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Thomas Heise – Volkspolizei 1985 AKA Police Department 1985 (1985)
In Police Department 1985 (1985), Heise observes the ins and outs of the Berlin People’s Police Department. Fassbinderesque mise-en-scènes of officers watching the USA v. GDR hockey game in a rec room...
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Tamer El Said – Akher ayam el madina AKA In the Last Days of the City (2016)
A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin. Berlinale’s description Downtown...
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Kleber Mendonça Filho – Retratos Fantasmas AKA Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
Synopsis: Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been...
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Jude Chehab – Q (2023)
Synopsis: Jude Chehab investigates her mother Hiba’s adherence to a closed-off, all-female religious sect in Syria. Chehab examines how their mother-daughter relationship and the dynamics of the...
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Tod Lending – Legacy (2000)
A documentary that tracks five years and three generations of a Chicago family’s life in public housing. The murder of a family member has an immediate impact, but eventually changes them toward a...
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James Benning – The United States of America (2022)
Quote: A crisscrosses through the USA, carving it up into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming....
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Stefano Savona – Samouni Road (2018)
In the rural outskirts of Gaza City a small community of farmers, the Samouni extended family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It’s going to be the first celebration since the latest war. Amal, Fuad,...
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George Butler – The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition...
In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton set out to become the first man to cross the frozen wastes of the Antarctic continent on foot; however, a combination of treacherous conditions, unexpected changes...
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Tze Woon Chan – Yellowing (2016) (HD)
The turmoil that has overtaken Hong Kong since its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 has spawned a new generation of young, passionately committed activist filmmakers; they want to tell Hong...
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Angelos Rallis – Mighty Afrin: In the Time of Floods (2023)
In the desolate wilderness of the disappearing islands along the Brahmaputra river, 12-year-old orphan Afrin is coming of age. When heavy rainfalls and flood waters ravage Afrin’s island, she refuses...
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Jennifer Fox – My Reincarnation (2011)
Tibetan Buddhist Master Choogyal Namkhai Norbu watches as his western-born son, Yeshi, who was recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, considers departing from tradition...
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Michael Blackwood – Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy (1994)
American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America’s cultural life. Featuring Harry Partch, Lou Harrison...
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Don Featherstone – David Hockney: Joiner Photographs [South Bank Show] (1983)
During the early 1980s, David Hockney focused on a new technique for creating photographic collages, which he termed ‘joiners’. These works involve assembling scores of photos of the same subject...
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Stavros Psyllakis – Apohairetismos: I mnimi tou topou AKA FAREWELL – The...
Synopsis: 87-year-old persecuted and declared guerrilla Giannis Lionakis, in a farewell trip to the place that defined his life, tells us about a 14-years (1948-1962) incredible survival effort, which...
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Inna Mkhitaryan – Tonratun (2023)
Quote: In an Armenian village with a patriarchal tradition, five women who are daughters, mothers and grandmothers debate together about life and war while they prepare lavash the Armenian traditional...
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